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TIL about 15% of all traffic on the internet is cat related

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grneD TIL Gorda Ramsay Is Not Just Nice To Children, But Also Kind To His Staff And Contestants, Striving To Make It A Learning Experience
grXG9 TIL Robert Chesebrough promoted his petroleum jelly by giving away free samples, making him one of the first to do so. Chesebrough would also show his product's effectiveness by cutting and burning himself then apply petroleum jelly to treat the wound in front of an audience.
APR4 TIL that The Strip, the thing Las Vegas is most famous for, is not actually located within the city of Las Vegas. It is in an adjacent unincorporated area of Clark County known as Paradise, Nevada.
M71B8 TIL a "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" contestant who helped another contestant cheat by coughing at the right answer had to trademark his name in order to prevent a pharmaceutical company naming cough medicine after him.
VyP8 TIL that the Rosetta spacecraft, while studying comet 67P, discovered electrons cause the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules erupting from the surface, not photons (light) as previously thought.